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Camille Wouters, Jaiprasath Sachithanandham, Elgin Akin…·Andrew S Pekosz
The paper studies SARS-CoV-2 variants from immunocompromised patients, finding altered syncytia formation, temperature-dependent replication, and antibody escape in some isolates.
Jonathan E. LoTempio, Erik Billings, Kyah Draper…·Drew G. Michael
The paper identifies a novel SARS-CoV-2 spike variant, S:N679S, in a neonatal patient and finds it present in other samples from the US mid-Atlantic region.
Li Shen, Jennifer Dien Bard, Timothy Junius Triche…·Xiaowu Gai
The paper identifies a rapid increase in the SARS-CoV-2 M gene mutation I82T and its association with a new sub-B.1 clade, suggesting potential biological fitness and implications for surveillance.
Li Shen, Jennifer Dien Bard, Jaclyn A. Biegel…·Xiaowu Gai
The paper analyzes 50,500 SARS-CoV-2 isolates to map global variant and haplotype landscapes, identifying country-private variants and haplotypes that increased with travel restrictions.
Li Shen, Dennis T. Maglinte, Dejerianne G. Ostrow…·Xiaowu Gai
The paper introduces CARD, a database for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, enabling rapid variant identification and phylogenetic analysis of viral isolates.
Chenyu Li, David N. Debruyne, Julia Spencer…·Zhitong Liu
A 343-primer-pair multiplex PCR assay enables electrophoretic detection and full-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 across 8 to half a million viral copies from 13 clinical specimens.